There’s always a lot to talk about with the world’s most expensive sport. Looking beyond the facade of beautiful, plastic promo girls, unlimited supplies of fine champagne, and pay-packets belying belief, there’s actually a lot of both competitiveness and camaraderie involved, oodles of skill required, and let’s be honest here – the guys are driving not only the fastest but also the most potentially dangerous cars possible, where even braking too hard in certain situations can leave you paralised. Enough said. Jenson Button further establishes himself as front-runner in this season’s affair. In Bahrain, coming up from third place into ‘chequered pole’ sees him move 12 points clear of the chasing pack, even without the video-game-esque KERS system some of the other teams have been using to find that extra split second of pace. Other teams and drivers are looking good and getting better though, depending on who your focus is on. The only real sob story left would have to be the tale of two Ferraris, wallowing in the doldrums with a measly three points between them.
But away from the motorsport we also see that it’s cusp time for footballing sides with the Champions League final set to be determined this week. Also, on the other side of the spectrum we have some teams hovering over and others already pushing that self destruct button that leads to relegation. Across the English leagues we’ve seen the loss of a fair few teams from their respective divisions. The Premiership is yet to suffer its first casualties but in line for the chop and drop could be any three of the bottom nine. It doesn’t get much tighter than that.
So far we’ve looked at a team sport, another one – involving both a team and individuals which, although separate, can never be mutually exclusive… But what about the pinnacle of individual sporting brilliance itself. The sporting metaphor of one man and his trusty ‘blade’ going to battle against another equally tooled-out warrior in a court worthy of its own kings. The meta-sport I speak of here is tennis. Another ATP term is well under-way and we are fast approaching the midway point of the season. Rafael ‘el Rey himself’ Nadal picked up his first Australian Open crown back in January and the race is on for his rivals to pick up as many points, victories, cups and titles before Wimbledon takes centre stage in a couple of months.
Indeed across all sports there are exciting times ahead beckoning us with entertainment, surprises and disappointments. The Betdreamers team will be watching everything unfold between now and then and if there’s value-betting to be had, you know where to find it!
Until then…..Sie sind die besten….Les meilleurs equipes…Bring on the Champions League.
WHAT ELSE IS ON?
MAY SPORTS AT A GLANCE
ATHLETICS:
May 9-10 Desenzano IAAF combined events
May 9 Osaka IAAF World Tour event
May 8 Doha IAAF World Tour event
May 31 New York IAAF World Tour event
May 30-31 Gotzis IAAF combined events
May 24 Belem IAAF World Tour event
CRICKET:
May 14-18 Second Test, Chester-le-Street England v WI
May 21 First ODI, Headingley Eng v WI
May 21 Somerset v Sri Lanka
May 24 Second ODI, Bristol England v West Indies
May 26 Third ODI, Edgbaston England v West Indies
May 6-10 First Test, Lord’s England v West Indies
FOOTBALL:
May 20 Istanbul UEFA Cup Final
May 23 Wembley Coca-Cola League Two play-off final
May 24 Wembley Coca-Cola League One play-off final
May 25 Wembley Coca-Cola Champ. play-off final
May 27 Rome Champions League final
May 30 Wembley FA Cup final
May 5-6 Champions League semi-final 2nd legs
May 7 UEFA Cup semi-final 2nd legs
May 8-17 Coca-Cola League play-off semi-finals
GOLF
May 14-17 New Jersey Sybase Classic
May 14-17 TBA Irish Open
May 14-17 Texas Valero Texas Open
May 21-24 New York LPGA Corning Classic
May 21-24 Texas HP Byron Nelson Championship
May 21-24 Wentworth BMW PGA Championship
May 28-31 TBA European Open
May 28-31 Texas Crowne Plaza Invitational
May 7-10 Florida The Players Championship
May 7-10 TBA Italian Open
May 7-10 Virginia Michelob Ultra Open
MOTOR CYCLING
May 10 Italy World Superbikes
May 17 France MotoGP
May 17 South Africa World Superbikes
May 25 Donington Park British Superbikes
May 3 Spain MotoGP
May 31 Italy MotoGP
May 31 Thruxton British Superbikes
May 31 United States World Superbikes
May 4 Oulton Park British Superbikes
MOTOR RACING:
May 10 Spanish Grand Prix
May 16 Donington Park British Touring Cars
May 17 France World Touring Cars
May 24 Monaco Grand Prix
May 3 Brands Hatch A1GP
May 3 Morocco World Touring Car Championship
May 31 Oulton Park British Touring Cars
May 31 Spain World Touring Car Championship
RUGBY LEAGUE
May 2-3 Engage Super League “Magic Weekend”
RUGBY UNION:
May 16 Twickenham Guinness Premiership final
May 2 European Challenge Cup semi-finals
May 23 European Challenge Cup final
May 24 Murrayfield Heineken Cup final
May 30 Rustenburg Highveld XV v Lions
May 30 Toronto Canada v Wales
May 9 Guinness Premiership semi-finals
TENNIS:
May 11-17 Madrid ATP Madrid Masters
May 18-24 Berlin WTA QATAR Telecom German Open
May 18-24 Dusseldorf ATP World Team Championship
May 18-24 Portschach ATP Hypo Group International
May 18-24 Strasbourg WTA Strasbourg International
May 25-Jun 7 Paris French Open
May 3-9 Rome BNL Italian Open
May 4-10 Amersfoort ATP Dutch Open
May 4-10 Estoril ATP Estoril Open
May 4-10 Estoril WTA Estoril Open
May 4-10 Munich ATP BMW Open
May 4-10 Rome WTA BNL Italian International
